Talk on what a systems programming language needs to replace C

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Monday, 26 August 2019 at 06:51:33 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 August 2019 at 10:06:07 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
> wrote:
>> https://youtu.be/l9hM0h6IQDo
>
>
> The entire talk is about evangelizing Rust contrary to what he 
> says. He also says he constantly have to add more stuff into 
> the language in order to make work better as a systems 
> programming language which kind of contradicts the idea that 
> Rust is suitable for system programming.
>

I ignored the evangelizing bits.

What I took from the talk is that there are two things:

a) The compelling feature is the Rust automatic memory management 
/memory safety without GC and runtime - that can motivate systems 
programmers to move from C.

b) Parity with C - this is where Rust lacks and needs 
enhancements.

Comparing with D, perhaps D excels at b) but lacks a compelling 
memory management solution that would motivate systems 
programmers.

Regards